Professor Al Fichera
Introduction to the Internet
“Where you leave your Internet Trail”
Covering Up Your Tracks


Where you leave your trail What is stored Cover your tracks in Netscape Navigator, Windows 95 Cover your tracks in Netscape Navigator, Windows 3.x Cover your tracks in Internet Explorer
Cache folder Images and URLs of pages you visit to speed viewing later Delete the Cache folder from Program Files/Netscape/Navigator. Delete the contents of the Cache folder in the Netscape folder. Delete the Temporary Internet Files folder from the Windows folder.
Cookie file Data you enter - an ID number, for example Delete cookies.txt from Program Files/Netscape/Navigator Delete the cookies.txt file. Delete the Cookies folder from the Windows folder.
History file URLs of every Web site you’ve visited Delete netscape.hst from Program Files/Netscape/Navigator. Edit the netscape.ini file in the Netscape directory. Delete the contents of the Windows/History folder.
Window Registry
(Be Careful!)
System and program settings Select Start | Run and type regedit. Use the Registry Editor’s Edit | Find command to find the URL History folder. Select and delete the URLs (but not the Default listing). Not applicable Same as for Netscape Navigator, Windows 95

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